Billionaire’s Journey into the Beast World, Suitors Compete to Be Fed by Her! - Chapter 22

Mi Yue was also startled, her gaze falling on Li Xiangyang, who stood in the crowd, drenched in sweat.

Li Xiangyang exchanged a few quiet words with the police captain beside him, after which an officer stepped forward to check on the unconscious thugs lying on the ground.

“Captain, they’re still breathing, just knocked out.”

Mi Yue let out a quiet sigh of relief. At least Xing Chi hadn’t gone so far as to kill them.

“Mr. Mi Ye, you are suspected of involvement in a hit-and-run incident. Please come with us to the station for questioning!” The police captain helped Mi Ye to his feet.

At these words, Mi Ye instinctively tried to resist but was immediately pinned to the ground by two officers.

The captain’s expression was stern. “Mi Ye, let me be frank with you. We’ve already received evidence implicating you in a drunk-driving incident that resulted in a fatality, as well as arranging for someone else to take the blame. I advise you to confess and cooperate.”

Hearing this, Mi Ye’s face turned deathly pale, and he was left speechless.

Soon, Mi Ye was taken away. Only after everyone had left did Li Xiangyang approach Mi Yue.

His amber eyes carefully scrutinized her from head to toe before he finally relaxed. “The security in this residential area isn’t great. For your safety, why don’t you move in with me for the time being? The master bedroom has always been kept for you, and it’s cleaned regularly.”

A pang of emotion hit Mi Yue as she recalled the words she’d spoken to him as a child.

She had once demanded that Li Xiangyang keep a room for her in his home, declaring that if her father ever made her angry, she would run away and stay with him.

She never imagined he had actually honored that promise all these years.

“Yue, I’m tired. I need to soak in water.” After moving around, Xing Chi was covered in sweat and wanted to relax in a bath to improve his mood.

“Go draw the water for me. I don’t know how.”

What else could Mi Yue do? She had no choice but to oblige.

Still, this man was truly difficult to please. From yesterday until now, she hadn’t received a single point of gratitude or merit from him, stingy to the core.

Li Xiangyang’s displeasure toward Xing Chi only deepened. The young mistress he had pampered and cherished since childhood was now being ordered to draw bathwater for some other man!

“She’s just been frightened. I’ll draw the bath for you.”

Xing Chi shook his head, his expression arrogant and dismissive. “We’re not familiar. Yue knows the right temperature for my baths.”

Veins bulged in Li Xiangyang’s clenched fists. Mi Yue watched anxiously, afraid the two might come to blows.

She pushed Xing Chi toward the bathroom. “Shut up. I’ll draw the water for you.”

Once the bathroom door closed, Li Xiangyang’s eyes darkened, his eyelids briefly lowering before reopening with their usual calm indifference.

Inside the bathroom, Mi Yue crouched by the tub, adjusting the water flow as she murmured, “Stop provoking Li Xiangyang on purpose. You’ll be returning to the Beast World soon, you won’t have anything to do with him after that.”

“Oh? Does it hurt you to see me treat him this way?” Xing Chi’s deep blue eyes gleamed with an unfathomable darkness.

His large hand settled on the delicate pink skin of her neck, while the fingers of his other hand slipped beneath the hem of her white sleepshirt.

The icy touch sent shivers down Mi Yue’s spine.

She tried to stand, but Xing Chi held her firmly in place, pressing her forward against the edge of the tub. To avoid falling into the water, she had no choice but to brace her hands against the rim.

“What are you doing? Control your hands!”

“You’re my mate.” Xing Chi’s arm wrapped around Mi Yue’s waist, pulling her forcefully against him.

His cold lips brushed the nape of her neck. “Not only will I touch you, I’ll mate with you and mark you as mine. That way, he’ll know you belong to me!”

“Stop messing around, there are people outside! Let me go now!”

Steam filled the bathroom as a petite young girl was pinned against the edge of the bathtub, the atmosphere thick with tension.

Her white short-sleeved shirt had already been pushed up above her navel, and slender, delicate fingers traced over her flat stomach.

Mi Yue trembled all over, the corners of her eyes tinged red, her skin growing warmer by the second.

The little female was blushing.

The frost in Xing Chi’s eyes gradually melted away. “So, you’re saying if there’s no one outside, you’ll mate with me?”

“I-I never said that,” Mi Yue stammered, avoiding his gaze.

Though she had accepted this new method of exchanging offspring for extended lifespan, she hadn’t expected things to move so quickly.

The corners of Xing Chi’s lips curled up, his ocean-like eyes glinting with amusement as his cool lips pressed a kiss against her slender swan-like neck, deepening it gradually.

She shrank back, covering the spot he had kissed and scolding him, “Alright, enough. You soak in the water, I’m going out.”

Having gotten his fill, Xing Chi didn’t mind that there was still a “dog” waiting for his little female outside. He leisurely stripped off his clothes and slipped into the bathtub.

Unlike ordinary wild sea beasts, the beastmen of the sea beast tribe relied on their beautiful tails and striking looks to attract their chosen mates.

Through generations of evolution and genetic refinement, the sea tribe beastmen had developed tails as mesmerizing as those of the merfolk.

As Xing Chi’s long, muscular legs submerged in the water, they instantly transformed into a shimmering, icy-blue tail streaked with iridescent hues. The fins along his arms, resting on the edges of the tub, also became visible.

His eyes closed, his mind drifting, yet his ears remained sharply attuned to the commotion outside.

“I found Xing Chi by the roadside. He’s got water in his brain and can’t speak properly, Brother Yang, don’t take it to heart.”

“If he’s sick, then send him to the hospital. Keeping him here isn’t safe either.” Li Xiangyang’s voice was clear and bright, laced with unmistakable dislike for Xing Chi.

“Uh…” Mi Yue had never heard Li Xiangyang speak so harshly before.

Realizing he had overstepped, Li Xiangyang quickly changed the subject. “Move in with me. I don’t feel comfortable letting you stay here any longer.”

“No need. Xing Chi can protect me. Besides, I’m planning to buy a new place, this one’s too small.”

The current apartment had two bedrooms and a living room. Back when she thought she had no hope of survival, she had settled for it.

But now that she could keep living, things were different.

“Why don’t you move back to the old family house? I can find a way to make the second branch move out.”

After Mi Yue’s parents passed away, the second branch of the Mi family had seized the ancestral home under the pretense of needing more space.

At the time, Li Xiangyang had been too preoccupied with stabilizing the company, and Mi Yue, drowning in grief, hadn’t pursued the matter.

Mi Yue shook her head. “There are things I need to do first. No rush, Mi Ye just got locked up. If we force the second branch out now, they might get desperate.”

Besides, her top priority right now was feeding her digital pet to extend her lifespan. She had no time to deal with the second branch.

If they behaved themselves, she could let it slide for now. But if they insisted on causing trouble, then she wouldn’t hold back.

“Is there anything you need my help with?”

“Actually, yes. Help me find a new place, a villa, preferably. Few neighbors, a swimming pool, convenient transportation. Even if it’s far from the city center, that’s fine.”

In the future, I might bring Xing Chi back to soak in the water, so having a swimming pool at home would be ideal. To avoid exposing our identities, it’s better to have fewer neighbors around, or none at all would be even better.

At the mention of a swimming pool, Li Xiangyang’s gaze flickered toward the bathroom.

“There’s a hillside villa in the suburbs currently on the market. It meets all your requirements, priced at 500 million. If you’re in a hurry, we can go see it right now.”

Mi Yue was naturally willing. “Alright, give me a moment to get ready.”

The bathroom door opened and Xing Chi emerged again, wrapped in a pink strawberry-patterned towel.

“Yue, I want to go too.”